Mobile communication system, base station apparatus, mobile station apparatus, and mobile communication method

ABSTRACT

A mobile station apparatus that includes a controller that reduces transmission power in case that data is transmitted simultaneously and a transmission circuit that simultaneous transmits said data using a plurality of channels, where the plurality of channels consists of at least one physical uplink control channel and at least one physical uplink shared channel. The transmission circuit of the mobile station apparatus also transmit hybrid automatic repeat request control information on said at least one physical uplink shared channel and also transmits channel state information on said at least one physical uplink control channel.

This application is a Divisional of co-pending application Ser. No.13/378,960 filed on Dec. 16, 2011, and for which priority is claimedunder 35 U.S.C. §120, application Ser. No. 13/378,960 is the nationalphase of PCT International Application No. PCT/JP2010/058526 filed onMay 20, 2010 under 35 U.S.C. §371, which claims the benefit of priorityof JP2009-144793 filed Jun. 18, 2009. The entire contents of each of theabove-identified applications are hereby incorporated by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a mobile communication system made upof a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus, and a mobilecommunication method.

BACKGROUND ART

3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) is a project fordiscussing/creating specifications of a mobile communication systembased on a network developed from W-CDMA (Wideband-Code DivisionMultiple Access) and GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications). The3GPP has standardized the W-CDMA mode as a third-generation cellularmobile communication mode and the services are sequentially started.HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) with higher communicationspeed has also been standardized and the service is started. The 3GPP iscurrently discussing about a mobile communication system (hereinafterreferred to as “LTE-A (Long Term Evolution-Advanced)” or“Advanced-EUTRA”) that utilizes the development of the third generationradio access technology (hereinafter referred to as “LTE (Long TermEvolution)” or “EUTRA (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access)”) anda wider frequency band to realize faster data transmission/reception.

The OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) system and theSC-FDMA (Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access) system whichperform user-multiplexing using subcarriers that are orthogonal to eachother are discussed as communication systems in LTE. The OFDMA systemthat is a multi-carrier communication system is proposed for downlink,and the SC-FDMA mode that is a single-carrier communication system isproposed for uplink.

On the other hand, for communication systems in LTE-A, it is discussedto introduce the OFDMA system for downlink and the Clustered-SC-FDMA(Clustered-Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access, alsoreferred to as DFT-s-OFDM with Spectrum Division Control) system, inaddition to the SC-FDMA system, for uplink. The SC-FDMA system and theClustered-SC-FDMA system proposed as uplink communication systems in LTEand LTE-A are characterized in that PAPR (Peak to Average Power Ratio)at the time of transmission of data (information) can be suppressed to alower level.

While a typical mobile communication system uses a continuous frequencyband, it is discussed for LTE-A to use a plurality ofcontinuous/discontinuous frequency bands (hereinafter, referred to as“carrier elements, carrier components (CC)” or “element carriers,component carriers (CC)”) in a multiple manner to implement operation asone frequency band (broad frequency band) (frequency band aggregation,also referred to as spectrum aggregation, carrier aggregation, andfrequency aggregation). It is also proposed to give different frequencybandwidths to a frequency band used for downlink communication and afrequency band used for uplink communication so that a base stationapparatus and a mobile station apparatus more flexibly use a widerfrequency band to perform communication (asymmetric frequency bandaggregation: asymmetric carrier aggregation) (Nonpatent Document 1).

FIG. 17 is a diagram for explaining frequency band aggregation in aconventional technique. Giving the same bandwidth to a frequency bandused for the downlink (DL) communication and a frequency band used forthe uplink (UL) communication as depicted in FIG. 17 is also referred toas symmetric frequency band aggregation (symmetric carrier aggregation).As depicted in FIG. 17, a base station apparatus and a mobile stationapparatus use the plurality of carrier components that arecontinuous/discontinuous frequency bands in a multiple manner, therebyperforming communication in a wider frequency band constituted of theplurality of carrier components. In FIG. 17, by way of example, it isdepicted that a frequency band used for the downlink communication witha bandwidth of 100 MHz (hereinafter also referred to as DL system bandor DL system bandwidth) is constituted of five carrier components (DCC1:Downlink Component Carrier 1, DCC2, DCC3, DCC4, and DCC5) each having abandwidth of 20 MHz. By way of example, it is also depicted that afrequency band used for the uplink communication with a bandwidth of 100MHz (hereinafter also referred to as UL system band or UL systembandwidth) is constituted of five carrier components (UCC1: UplinkComponent Carrier 1, UCC2, UCC3, UCC4, and UCC5) each having a bandwidthof 20 MHz.

In FIG. 17, downlink channels such as a physical downlink controlchannel (hereinafter, PDCCH) and a physical downlink shared channel(hereinafter, PDSCH) mapped on each of the downlink carrier components.The base station apparatus uses the PDCCH to transmit to the mobilestation apparatus control information (such as resource allocationinformation, MCS (Modulation and Coding Scheme) information, and HARQ(Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request) process information) for transmittinga downlink transport block transmitted by using the PDSCH, and usesPDSCH to transmit the downlink transport block to the mobile stationapparatus. Therefore, in FIG. 17, the base station apparatus cantransmit up to five downlink transport blocks to the mobile stationapparatus in the same sub-frame.

Also, uplink channels such as a physical uplink control channel(hereinafter, PUCCH) and a physical uplink shared channel (hereinafter,PUSCH) mapped on each of the uplink carrier components. The mobilestation apparatus uses PUCCH and/or PUSCH to transmit to the basestation apparatus control information (control signals) such as HARQcontrol information for the physical downlink control channel and/or thedownlink transport blocks, channel state information, and schedulingrequests. The HARQ control information is information indicative ofACK/NACK (Positive Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement, ACK signalor NACK signal) and/or information indicative of DTX (DiscontinuousTransmission) for the physical downlink control channel and/or thedownlink transport blocks. The information indicative DTX is informationindicating that the mobile station apparatus cannot detect the PDCCHfrom the base station apparatus. In FIG. 17, any of downlink/uplinkchannels such as the PDCCH, the PDSCH, the PUCCH, and the PUSCH may notbe mapped on some downlink/uplink carrier components.

Similarly, FIG. 18 is a diagram for explaining asymmetric frequency bandaggregation (asymmetric carrier aggregation) in a conventionaltechnique. As depicted in FIG. 18, the base station apparatus and themobile station apparatus give different bandwidths to a frequency bandused for the downlink communication and a frequency band used for theuplink communication, and use the carrier components constitute thesefrequency bands in a multiple manner, thereby performing communicationin a wider frequency band. In FIG. 18, by way of example, it is depictedthat a frequency band used for the downlink communication with abandwidth of 100 MHz is constituted of five carrier components (DCC1,DCC2, DCC3, DCC4, and DCC5) each having a bandwidth of 20 MHz, and thata frequency band used for the uplink communication with a bandwidth of40 MHz is constituted of two carrier components (UCC1 and UCC2) eachhaving a bandwidth of 20 MHz. In FIG. 18, the downlink/uplink channelsare mapped on each of the downlink/uplink carrier components, and thebase station apparatus uses the plurality of PDSCHs allocated by theplurality of PDCCHs to transmit the plurality of downlink transportblocks in the same sub-frame to the mobile station apparatus. The mobilestation apparatus uses the PUCCH and/or the PUSCH to transmit thecontrol information (the control signals) such as the HARQ controlinformation, the channel state information, and the scheduling requests,to the base station apparatus.

PRIOR ART DOCUMENT Nonpatent Document

-   Nonpatent Document 1: “Initial Access Procedure for Asymmetric Wider    Bandwidth in LTE-Advanced”, 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 Meeting #55, R1-084249,    Nov. 10-14, 2008.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Problem to be Solved by the Invention

However, in a conventional technique, it is problematic that the mobilestation apparatus is unable to transmit the data (information) to thebase station apparatus by using the PUSCH and the PUCCH in the samesub-frame (simultaneous transmission of the PUSCH and the PUCCH), totransmit the data to the base station apparatus by using the pluralityof PUSCHs in the same sub-frame (simultaneous transmission of theplurality of PUSCHs), and to transmit the data to the base stationapparatus by using the plurality of PUCCHs in the same sub-frame(simultaneous transmission of the plurality of PUCCHs).

On the other hand, LTE-A enables the mobile station apparatus totransmit the data to the base station apparatus with transmission power(PAPR: Peak to Average Power Ratio) higher than conventional cases sincethe mobile station apparatus performs the data transmission using theplurality of uplink carrier components. However, since it is alsoimportant that the mobile station apparatus suppresses transmissionpower low to some extent when transmitting the data, LTE-A needs a datatransmitting method using the plurality of PUSCHs and/or PUCCHs inconsideration of transmission power in a mobile station apparatus.

The present invention was conceived in view of the situations and it istherefore a purpose of the present invention to provide a mobilecommunication system and a mobile communication method capable of thedata transmission using the plurality of PUSCHs and/or PUCCHs withtransmission power in the mobile station apparatus suppressed to a lowerlevel when the base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatususe the carrier components in a multiple manner to perform communicationin a wider frequency band.

Means for Solving the Problem

(1) To accomplish the above purpose, the present invention uses thefollowing means. A base station apparatus of the present invention is abase station apparatus receiving uplink control information from amobile station apparatus, comprising: a means for receiving, from themobile station apparatus, channel state information on a first physicaluplink control channel if the uplink control information transmitted bythe mobile station apparatus consists only of the channel stateinformation in a sub-frame; a means for receiving, from the mobilestation apparatus, HARQ control information on a second physical uplinkcontrol channel if the uplink control information transmitted by themobile station apparatus consists only of the HARQ control informationin a sub-frame; and a means for receiving, from the mobile stationapparatus, the channel state information on a physical uplink sharedchannel and the HARQ control information on the second physical uplinkcontrol channel if the uplink control information transmitted by themobile station apparatus consists of the channel state information andthe HARQ control information in a sub-frame in which the physical uplinkshared channel is being transmitted.

(2) Further, a mobile station apparatus of the present invention is amobile station apparatus transmitting uplink control information to abase station apparatus, comprising: a means for transmitting, to thebase station apparatus, channel state information on a first physicaluplink control channel if the uplink control information transmitted tothe base station apparatus consists only of the channel stateinformation in a sub-frame; a means for transmitting, to the basestation apparatus, HARQ control information on a second physical uplinkcontrol channel if the uplink control information transmitted to thebase station apparatus consists only of the HARQ control information ina sub-frame; and a means for transmitting, to the base stationapparatus, the channel state information on a physical uplink sharedchannel and the HARQ control information on the second physical uplinkcontrol channel if the uplink control information transmitted to thebase station apparatus consists of the channel state information and theHARQ control information in a sub-frame in which the physical uplinkshared channel is being transmitted.

(3) Further, a communication method of the present invention is acommunication method of a base station apparatus receiving uplinkcontrol information from a mobile station apparatus, comprising:receiving, from the mobile station apparatus, channel state informationon a first physical uplink control channel if the uplink controlinformation transmitted by the mobile station apparatus consists only ofthe channel state information in a sub-frame; receiving, from the mobilestation apparatus, HARQ control information on a second physical uplinkcontrol channel if the uplink control information transmitted by themobile station apparatus consists only of the HARQ control informationin a sub-frame; and receiving, from the mobile station apparatus, thechannel state information on a physical uplink shared channel and theHARQ control information on the second physical uplink control channelif the uplink control information transmitted by the mobile stationapparatus consists of the channel state information and the HARQ controlinformation in a sub-frame in which the physical uplink shared channelis being transmitted.

(4) Further, a communication method of the present invention is acommunication method of a mobile station apparatus transmitting uplinkcontrol information to a base station apparatus, comprising:transmitting, to the base station apparatus, channel state informationon a first physical uplink control channel if the uplink controlinformation transmitted to the base station apparatus consists only ofthe channel state information in a sub-frame; transmitting, to the basestation apparatus, HARQ control information on a second physical uplinkcontrol channel if the uplink control information transmitted to thebase station apparatus consists only of the HARQ control information ina sub-frame; and transmitting, to the base station apparatus, thechannel state information on a physical uplink shared channel and theHARQ control information on the second physical uplink control channelif the uplink control information transmitted to the base stationapparatus consists of the channel state information and the HARQ controlinformation in a sub-frame in which the physical uplink shared channelis being transmitted.

Effect of the Invention

The present invention enables information transmission/reception usingthe plurality of PUSCHs and/or PUCCHs with transmission power in themobile station apparatus suppressed to a lower level when the basestation apparatus and the mobile station apparatus uses the plurality ofcontinuous/discontinuous frequency bands (the carrier components) in amultiple manner to perform communication in a wider frequency band.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram of a configuration of physical channelsaccording to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a general configuration of a base stationapparatus 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a general configuration of a mobile stationapparatus 200 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram of an example of a mobile communication system towhich a first embodiment is applicable.

FIG. 5 is another diagram of an example of a mobile communication systemto which the first embodiment is applicable.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining an example of operation of the mobilestation apparatus when a physical uplink shared channel is allocated.

FIG. 7 is another diagram for explaining an example of operation of themobile station apparatus when the physical uplink shared channel isallocated.

FIG. 8 is a diagram of an example of a mobile communication system towhich a second embodiment is applicable.

FIG. 9 is yet another diagram for explaining an example of operation ofthe mobile station apparatus when the physical uplink shared channel isallocated.

FIG. 10 is still another diagram for explaining an example of operationof the mobile station apparatus when the physical uplink shared channelis allocated.

FIG. 11 is a diagram for explaining an example of arrangement of firstcontrol information and uplink data.

FIG. 12 is another diagram for explaining an example of arrangement ofthe first control information and the uplink data.

FIG. 13 is a further diagram for explaining an example of arrangement ofthe first control information and the uplink data.

FIG. 14 is a further diagram for explaining an example of operation ofthe mobile station apparatus when the physical uplink shared channel isallocated.

FIG. 15 is a yet further diagram for explaining an example of operationof the mobile station apparatus when the physical uplink shared channelis allocated.

FIG. 16 is a diagram for explaining an example of arrangement of thefirst control information, a second control information, and the uplinkdata.

FIG. 17 is a diagram of an example of frequency band aggregation in aconventional technique.

FIG. 18 is a diagram of an example of asymmetric frequency bandaggregation in a conventional technique.

MODES FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

Embodiments according to the present invention will now be describedwith reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram of one exemplaryconfiguration of channels of an embodiment of the present invention.Downlink physical channels are constituted of a physical broadcastchannel (PBCH), a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a physicaldownlink shared channel (PDSCH), a physical multicast channel (PMCH), aphysical control format indicator channel (PCFICH), and a physicalhybrid ARQ indicator channel (PHICH). Uplink physical channels areconstituted of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), a physicaluplink control channel (PUCCH), and a physical random access channel(PRACH).

The physical broadcast channel (PBCH) maps the broadcast channel (BCH)at intervals of 40 milliseconds. Blind detection is performed for thetiming of 40 milliseconds. Therefore, explicit signaling is notperformed for the presentation of the timing. A sub-frame including thephysical broadcast channel (PBCH) can be decoded by itself(self-decodable).

The physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is a channel used fornotifying (transmitting to) the mobile station apparatus of the resourceallocation of the physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the hybridautomatic repeat request (HARQ) information for the downlink data, andan uplink transmission permission that is the resource allocation of thephysical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The PDDCH is constituted of aplurality of control channel elements (CCE), and the mobile stationapparatus detects the PDCCH constituted of CCEs to receive the PDCCHfrom the base station apparatus. The CCE is constituted of a pluralityof resource element groups (REG, also referred as mini-CCE) distributedin frequency and time domains. A resource element is a unit resourceconstituted of one OFDM symbol (time domain) and one sub-carrier(frequency domain) and, for example, the REG is constituted of fourdownlink resource elements consecutive in the frequency domain, exceptthe downlink pilot channel, in the frequency domain in the same OFDMsymbol. For example, one PDCCH is constituted of one, two, four, andeight CCEs having the consecutive numbers identifying CCEs (CCE index).

The PDCCH is separately coded (separate coding is applied) by eachmobile station apparatus and by each type. Therefore, the mobile stationapparatus detects the plurality of PDCCHs and acquires the downlink oruplink resource allocation and the information indicative of othercontrol signals. A value of CRC (cyclic redundancy check) enablingformat identification is added to each PDCCH and the mobile stationapparatus performs CRC for each set of CCEs that may constitute thePDCCH and acquires the PDCCH of successful CEC. This is referred to asblind decoding and, with regard to a set of CCEs that may constitute thePDCCH which the blind decoding is performed, the range thereof isreferred to as a search space. Therefore, the mobile station apparatusperforms the blind decoding for CCEs in the search space to detect thePDCCH.

If the PDCCH includes resource allocation of the physical downlinkshared channel (PDSCH), the mobile station apparatus uses the physicaldownlink shared channel (PDSCH) to receive the data (downlink data(downlink shared channel (DL-SCH)), and/or the downlink control data(the downlink control information)) in accordance with the resourceallocation specified by the PDCCH from the base station apparatus.Therefore, the PDCCH is used for transmitting a signal that performsresource allocation to downlink (hereinafter referred to as “a downlinktransmission permission signal” or “a downlink grant”). If the PDCCHincludes resource allocation of the physical uplink shared channel(PUSCH), the mobile station apparatus uses the physical uplink sharedchannel (PUSCH) to transmit the data (uplink data (uplink shared channel(UL-SCH)), and/or the uplink control data (the uplink controlinformation)) in accordance with the resource allocation specified bythe PDCCH from the base station apparatus. Therefore, the PDCCH is usedfor transmitting a signal that permits data transmission to uplink(hereinafter referred to as “an uplink transmission permission signal”or “an uplink grant”).

The physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) is a channel used fortransmitting the downlink data (downlink shared channel: DL-SCH) orpaging information (paging channel: PCH). The physical multicast channel(PMCH) is a channel utilized for transmitting a multicast channel (MCH),and a downlink reference signal, an uplink reference signal, and aphysical downlink synchronization signal are separately mapped.

The transmission of the downlink data (the DL-SCH) indicatestransmission of user data, for example, and the DL-SCH is a transportchannel. The DL-SCH supports HARQ and dynamic adaptive radio linkcontrol, and can utilize the beamforming. The DL-SCH supports dynamicresource allocation and quasi-static resource allocation.

The physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) is a channel mainly used fortransmitting the uplink data (uplink shared channel: UL-SCH). If thebase station apparatus schedules the mobile station apparatus, thecontrol information (the control signal) is also transmitted by usingthe PUSCH. This control information consists of the channel stateinformation (CSI) (channel state information or channel statisticalinformation) indicative of a downlink channel state, a downlink channelquality indicator (CQI), a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), a rankindicator (RI), and the HARQ control information for the PDCCH and/orthe downlink transport blocks (the information indicative of ACK/NACKand/or the information indicative of DTX). The channel state information(CSI) consists of, for example, explicit channel state information(Explicit CSI), which is a downlink channel state itself measured by amobile station apparatus (a measured downlink channel state representedby a proper factor etc.). the CQI, the PMI, the RI, etc., are alsoreferred to as implicit channel state information (Implicit CSI).

The transmission of the uplink data (the UL-SCH) indicates transmissionof user data, for example, and the UL-SCH is a transport channel. TheUL-SCH supports HARQ and dynamic adaptive radio link control, and canutilize the beamforming. The UL-SCH supports dynamic resource allocationand quasi-static resource allocation.

The uplink data (the UL-SCH) and the downlink data (the DL-SCH) mayinclude radio resource control signals exchanged between the basestation apparatus and the mobile station apparatus (hereinafter referredto as “RRC signaling: Radio Resource Control Signaling”), MAC (MediumAccess Control) control elements, etc.

The physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) is a channel used fortransmitting the control information (the control signal). The controlinformation consists of, for example, the channel state information(CSI), the downlink channel quality indicator (CQI), the precodingmatrix indicator (PMI), and the rank indicator (RI) transmitted (fedback) from the mobile station apparatus to the base station apparatus,the scheduling request (SR) that requests resource allocation fortransmission of the uplink data by the mobile station apparatus (thatrequests transmission on the UL-SCH), and the HARQ control informationfor the PDCCH and/or the downlink transport blocks (the informationindicative of ACK/NACK and/or the information indicative of DTX).

The physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH) is a channelutilized for notifying the mobile station apparatus of the number ofOFDM symbols used for the PDCCH and is transmitted in sub-frames. Thephysical hybrid ARQ indicator channel (PHICH) is a channel utilized fortransmitting ACK/NACK used for HARQ of the uplink data. The physicalrandom access channel (PRACH) is a channel used for transmitting arandom access preamble and has a guard time. As depicted in FIG. 1, amobile communication system according to this embodiment is made up of abase station apparatus 100 and mobile station apparatuses 200.

[Configuration of Base Station Apparatus]

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a general configuration of the base stationapparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. Thebase station apparatus 100 includes a data control portion 101, atransmission data modulating portion 102, a radio portion 103, ascheduling portion 104, a channel estimating portion 105, a receptiondata demodulating portion 106, a data extracting portion 107, a higherlayer 108, and an antenna 109. A receiving portion is made up of theradio portion 103, the scheduling portion 104, the channel estimatingportion 105, the reception data demodulating portion 106, the dataextracting portion 107, the higher layer 108, and the antenna 109, and atransmitting portion is made up of the data control portion 101, thetransmission data modulating portion 102, the radio portion 103, thescheduling portion 104, the higher layer 108, and the antenna 109.

The antenna 109, the radio portion 103, the channel estimating portion105, the reception data demodulating portion 106, and the dataextracting portion 107 execute processes of an uplink physical layer.The antenna 109, the radio portion 103, the transmission data modulatingportion 102, and the data control portion 101 execute processes of adownlink physical layer.

The data control portion 101 receives the transport channels from thescheduling portion 104. The data control portion 101 maps the transportchannels as well as signals and channels generated in the physical layerto the physical channels based on the scheduling information input fromthe scheduling portion 104. The data mapped as described above areoutput to the transmission data modulating portion 102.

The transmission data modulating portion 102 modulates transmission datainto the OFDM mode. The transmission data modulating portion 102executes signal processes on the data input from the data controlportion 101 such as data modulation, encoding, input signalserial/parallel conversion, the IFFT (Inverse Fast Fourier Transform)process, CP (cyclic prefix) insertion, and filtering based on thescheduling information from the scheduling portion 104 and a modulationmode and a coding mode corresponding to PRBs, generates transmissiondata and outputs that data to the radio portion 103. The schedulinginformation includes downlink physical resource block PRB allocationinformation, for example, physical resource block position informationmade up of frequency and time, and the modulating scheme and the codingscheme corresponding to PRBs include information such as a modulatingscheme: 16QAM and a coding rate: ⅔ coding rate, for example.

The radio portion 103 up-converts the modulated data input from thetransmission data modulating portion 102 to a radio frequency togenerate and transmit a radio signal via the antenna 109 to the mobilestation apparatus 200. The radio portion 103 receives an uplink radiosignal from the mobile station apparatus 200 via the antenna 109 anddown-converts the signal to a baseband signal to output the receptiondata to the channel estimating portion 105 and the reception datademodulating portion 106.

The scheduling portion 104 executes a process of a medium access control(MAC) layer. The scheduling portion 104 performs the mapping of thelogical channels and the transport channels, the scheduling of downlinkand uplink (such as HARQ process and selection of transport format),etc. Since the scheduling portion 104 integrally controls the processingportions of the physical layers, interfaces exist between the schedulingportion 104 and the antenna 109, the radio portion 103, the channelestimating portion 105, the reception data demodulating portion 106, thedata control portion 101, the transmission data modulating portion 102,and the data extracting portion 107 (although not depicted).

In the downlink scheduling, the scheduling portion 104 executes theselection process of a downlink transport format for modulating data(transmission form, i.e., allocation of physical resource blocks and amodulating scheme and a coding scheme), the retransmission control ofHARQ, and generates the scheduling information used in downlink, basedon feedback information received from the mobile station apparatus 200(uplink channel state information (CQI, PMI, RI) and ACK/NACKinformation for downlink data), the information of usable PRB of themobile station apparatuses, a buffer status, the scheduling informationinput from the higher layer 108, etc. The scheduling information usedfor the downlink scheduling is output to the data control portion 101.

In the uplink scheduling, the scheduling portion 104 executes theselection process of an uplink transport format for modulating data(transmission form, i.e., allocation of physical resource blocks and amodulating scheme and a coding scheme) and generates the schedulinginformation used in the uplink scheduling, based on an estimation resultof an uplink channel state (radio propagation channel state) output bythe channel estimating portion 105, a resource allocation request fromthe mobile station apparatus 200, information of usable PRB of themobile station apparatuses 200, the scheduling information input fromthe higher layer 108, etc. The scheduling information used for theuplink scheduling is output to the data control portion 101.

The scheduling portion 104 maps the downlink logical channels input fromthe higher layer 108 to the transport channels before output to the datacontrol portion 101. The scheduling portion 104 processes the controldata acquired through the uplink and the transport channels input fromthe data extracting portion 107 as needed and maps the control data andthe transport channels to the uplink logical channels before output tothe higher layer 108.

The channel estimating portion 105 estimates an uplink channel statefrom an uplink demodulation reference signal (DRS) for the demodulationof uplink data and outputs the estimation result to the reception datademodulating portion 106. The channel estimating portion 105 alsoestimates an uplink channel state from an uplink sounding referencesignal (SRS) for scheduling the uplink and outputs the estimation resultto the scheduling portion 104.

The reception data demodulating portion 106 also acts as an OFDMdemodulating portion and/or a DFT-Spread-OFDM (DFT-S-OFDM) demodulatingportion demodulating reception data modulated into the OFDM mode and/orSC-FDMA mode. Based on the uplink channel state estimation result inputfrom the channel estimating portion 105, the reception data demodulatingportion 106 executes signal processes to the modulated data input fromthe radio portion 103 such as DFT transform, sub-carrier mapping, IFFTtransform, and filtering and executes the demodulating process beforeoutputs to the data extracting portion 107.

The data extracting portion 107 checks the correctness of the data inputfrom the reception data demodulating portion 106 and outputs the checkresult (acknowledgement signal ACK/negative acknowledgement signal NACK)to the scheduling portion 104. The data extracting portion 107 dividesthe data input from the reception data demodulating portion 106 into thetransport channels and the physical layer control data before output tothe scheduling portion 104. The divided control data consists of thechannel state information CSI, the downlink channel quality indicatorCQI, the precoding matrix indicator PMI, and the rank indicator RIsupplied from the mobile station apparatus 200, the HARQ controlinformation, a scheduling request, etc.

The higher layer 108 executes processes of a packet data convergenceprotocol (PDCP) layer, a radio link control (RLC) layer, and a radioresource control (RRC) layer. Since the higher layer 108 integrallycontrols the processing portions of the lower layers, interfaces existbetween the higher layer 108 and the scheduling portion 104, the antenna109, the radio portion 103, the channel estimating portion 105, thereception data demodulating portion 106, the data control portion 101,the transmission data modulating portion 102, and the data extractingportion 107 (although not depicted).

The higher layer 108 has a radio resource control portion 110 (alsoreferred to as a control portion). The radio resource control portion110 performs management of various pieces of configuration information,management of system information, paging control, management ofcommunication states of mobile station apparatuses, management ofmigration such as handover, management of buffer status for each mobilestation apparatus, management of connection setup of unicast andmulticast bearers, management of mobile station identifier (UEID), etc.The higher layer 108 gives/receives information to/from another basestation apparatus and information to/from a higher node.

[Configuration of Mobile Station Apparatus]

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a general configuration of the mobilestation apparatus 200 according to an embodiment of the presentinvention. The mobile station apparatus 200 includes a data controlportion 201, a transmission data modulating portion 202, a radio portion203, a scheduling portion 204, a channel estimating portion 205, areception data demodulating portion 206, a data extracting portion 207,a higher layer 208, and an antenna 209. A transmitting portion is madeup of the data control portion 201, the transmission data modulatingportion 202, the radio portion 203, the scheduling portion 204, thehigher layer 208, and the antenna 209, and a receiving portion is madeup of the radio portion 203, the scheduling portion 204, the channelestimating portion 205, the reception data demodulating portion 206, thedata extracting portion 207, the higher layer 208, and the antenna 209.

The data control portion 201, the transmission data modulating portion202, and the radio portion 203 execute processes of the uplink physicallayer. The radio portion 203, the channel estimating portion 205, thereception data demodulating portion 206, and the data extracting portion207 execute processes of the downlink physical layer.

The data control portion 201 receives the transport channels from thescheduling portion 204. The data control portion 201 maps the transportchannels as well as signals and channels generated in the physical layerto the physical channels based on the scheduling information input fromthe scheduling portion 204. The data mapped as described above areoutput to the transmission data modulating portion 202.

The transmission data modulating portion 202 modulates transmission datainto the OFDM mode and/or the SC-FDMA mode. The transmission datamodulating portion 202 executes signal processes such as datamodulation, DFT (discrete Fourier transform) process, sub-carriermapping, IFFT (inverse fast Fourier transform) process, CP insertion,and filtering for the data input from the data control portion 201 togenerate and output transmission data to the radio portion 203.

The radio portion 203 up-converts the modulated data input from thetransmission data modulating portion 202 to a radio frequency togenerate and transmit a radio signal via the antenna 209 to the basestation apparatus 100. The radio portion 203 receives a radio signalmodulated with the downlink data from the base station apparatus 100 viathe antenna 209 and down-converts the signal to a baseband signal tooutput the reception data to the channel estimating portion 205 and thereception data demodulating portion 206.

The scheduling portion 204 executes a process of a medium access control(MAC) layer. The scheduling portion 104 performs the mapping of thelogical channels and the transport channels, the scheduling of downlinkand uplink (such as HARQ process and selection of transport format),etc. Since the scheduling portion 204 integrally controls the processingportions of the physical layers, interfaces exist between the schedulingportion 204 and the antenna 209, the data control portion 201, thetransmission data modulating portion 202, the channel estimating portion205, the reception data demodulating portion 206, the data extractingportion 207, and the radio portion 203 (although not depicted).

In the down link scheduling, the scheduling portion 204 executes thereception control of the transport channels and the physical signals andphysical channels, the HARQ retransmission control, and the generationof the scheduling information used in the downlink scheduling, based onthe scheduling information from the base station apparatus 100 and thehigher layer 208 (the transport format and the HARQ retransmissioninformation). The scheduling information used for the downlinkscheduling is output to the data control portion 201.

In the uplink scheduling, the scheduling portion 204 executes thescheduling process for mapping the uplink logical channels input fromthe higher layer 208 to the transport channels and the generation of thescheduling information used in the uplink scheduling, based on theuplink buffer status input from the higher layer 208, the uplinkscheduling information from the base station apparatus 100 input fromthe data extracting portion 207 (the transport format and the HARQretransmission information), and the scheduling information input fromthe higher layer 208. For the uplink transport format, the informationsupplied from the base station apparatus 100 is utilized. The schedulinginformation is output to the data control portion 201.

The scheduling portion 204 maps the uplink logical channels input fromthe higher layer 208 to the transport channels before output to the datacontrol portion 201. The scheduling portion 204 also outputs to the datacontrol portion 201 the downlink channel state information (CSI), thedownlink channel quality indicator (CQI), the precoding matrix indicator(PMI), and the rank indicator (RI) input from the channel estimatingportion 205, and a confirmation result of CRC check input from the dataextracting portion 207. The scheduling portion 204 processes the controldata acquired through the downlink and the transport channels input fromthe data extracting portion 207 as needed and maps the control data andthe transport channels to the downlink logical channels before output tothe higher layer 208.

The channel estimating portion 205 estimates a downlink channel statefrom a downlink reference signal (RS) for the demodulation of downlinkdata and outputs the estimation result to the reception datademodulating portion 206. The channel estimating portion 205 estimates adownlink channel state from a downlink reference signal (RS) fornotifying the base station apparatus 100 of an estimation result of adownlink channel state (radio propagation channel state) and outputsthis estimation result as the downlink channel state information (CSI),the downlink channel quality indicator (CQI), the precoding matrixindicator (PMI), and the rank indicator (RI) to the scheduling portion204.

The reception data demodulating portion 206 demodulates reception datademodulated into the OFDM mode. The reception data demodulating portion206 executes the demodulation process for the modulated data input fromthe radio portion 203 based on the downlink channel state estimationresult input from the channel estimating portion 205 before output tothe data extracting portion 207.

The data extracting portion 207 performs the CRC check for the datainput from the reception data demodulating portion 206 to confirm thecorrectness and outputs the confirmation result (acknowledgementACK/negative acknowledgement NACK) to the scheduling portion 204. Thedata extracting portion 207 divides the data input from the receptiondata demodulating portion 206 into the transport channels and thephysical layer control data before output to the scheduling portion 204.The divided control data includes the scheduling information such asdownlink or uplink resource allocation and uplink HARQ controlinformation.

The higher layer 208 executes processes of a packet data convergenceprotocol (PDCP) layer, a radio link control (RLC) layer, and a radioresource control (RRC) layer. Since the higher layer 208 integrallycontrols the processing portions of the lower layers, interfaces existbetween the higher layer 208 and the scheduling portion 204, the antenna209, the data control portion 201, the transmission data modulatingportion 202, the channel estimating portion 205, the reception datademodulating portion 206, the data extracting portion 207, and the radioportion 203 (although not depicted).

The higher layer 208 has a radio resource control portion 210 (alsoreferred to as a control portion). The radio resource control portion210 performs management of various pieces of configuration information,management of system information, paging control, management ofcommunication state of the mobile station, management of migration suchas handover, management of buffer status, management of connection setupof unicast and multicast bearers, and management of mobile stationidentifier (UEID).

First Embodiment

A first embodiment of the mobile communication system using the basestation apparatus 100 and the mobile station apparatus 200 will bedescribed. In the first embodiment, the base station apparatus allocatesa first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for transmission offirst control information by the mobile station apparatus persistently(permanently) to the mobile station apparatus by using a radio resourcecontrol signal (the RRC signaling), and allocates a second physicaluplink control channel (PUCCH) for transmission of second controlinformation by the mobile station apparatus dynamically to the mobilestation apparatus in association with the physical downlink controlchannel (PDCCH), and if the physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) isallocated by the base station apparatus, the mobile station apparatuscan transmit, to the base station apparatus, the first controlinformation by using the physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and thesecond control information by using the second physical uplink controlchannel (PUCCH) in the same sub-frame.

The first control information consists of the channel state information(CSI) indicative of the downlink channel state transmitted (fed back)from the mobile station apparatus to the base station apparatus. Thefirst control information consists of the scheduling request (SR) thatrequests resource allocation for transmission of the uplink data by themobile station apparatus. The first control information consists of thechannel quality indicator (CQI). The first control information consistsof the rank indicator (RI). The first control information consists ofthe precoding matrix indicator (PMI). The first control information mayconsist of the HARQ control information for the downlink transportblocks transmitted on the resources persistently allocated by the basestation apparatus.

The second control information consists of the HARQ control information(the control signal) for the PDCCH and/or the downlink transport blocks.Therefore, the second control information consists of the HARQ controlinformation for the PDCCH channel and/or the downlink transport blockstransmitted on the resources dynamically allocated by the base stationapparatus, and the second control information may consist of the HARQcontrol information for the downlink transport blocks transmitted on theresources persistently allocated by the base station apparatus. The HARQcontrol information is the information indicative of ACK/NACK and/or theinformation indicative of DTX for the PDCCH and/or the downlinktransport blocks. The information indicative of DTX is informationindicating that the mobile station apparatus cannot detect the PDCCHfrom the base station apparatus. In this embodiment, the first PUCCHpersistently (permanently) allocated indicates, for example, the PUCCHallocated at intervals on the order of 100 ms by the RRC signaling fromthe base station apparatus (also referred to as persistently allocatedPUCCH), and the base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatusensure the PUCCH allocated by the RRC signaling for a certain period(e.g., about 100 ms) to transmit/receive the data by using the allocatedPUCCH. On the other hand, the second PUCCH dynamically allocatedindicates, for example, the PUCCH allocated at intervals on the order of1 ms in association with the PDCCH from the base station apparatus (alsoreferred to as dynamically allocated PUCCH).

Although a frequency band is defined in bandwidth (Hz) in thisembodiment, a frequency band may be defined in the number of resourceblocks (RBs) constituted of frequency and time. The carrier component inthis embodiment indicates a (narrower) frequency band used by the basestation apparatus and the mobile station apparatus performingcommunication in the mobile communication system having a (wider) systemband (frequency band). The base station apparatus and the mobile stationapparatus aggregate the plurality of carrier component (e.g., fivefrequency bands each having a bandwidth of 20 MHz) (frequency bandaggregation: carrier aggregation) to constitute a (wider) system band(e.g., DL system band/UL system band having a bandwidth of 100 MHz) andcan realize high-speed data communication (transmission/reception ofinformation) by using the plurality of carrier component in a multiplemanner.

The carrier component indicates each of (narrower) frequency bands(e.g., frequency bands each having a bandwidth of 20 MHz) constitutethis (wider) system band (e.g., DL system band/UL system band having abandwidth of 100 MHz). Therefore, a downlink carrier component has abandwidth of a portion of the frequency band usable by the base stationapparatus and the mobile station apparatus at the time oftransmission/reception of the downlink information, and an uplinkcarrier component has a bandwidth of a portion of the frequency bandusable by the base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus atthe time of transmission/reception of the uplink information. Thecarrier component may be defined as a constituent unit of a certainphysical channel (e.g., the PDCCH, the PUCCH).

The carrier components may be mapped in continuous frequency bands ormay be mapped in discontinuous frequency bands, and the base stationapparatus and the mobile station apparatus aggregate the plurality ofcarrier components that are continuous and/or discontinuous frequencybands to constitute a wider system band (frequency band) and can realizehigh-speed data communication (transmission/reception of information) byusing the plurality of carrier components in a multiple manner. Thedownlink frequency band (DL system band, DL system bandwidth) and theuplink frequency band (UL system band, UL system bandwidth) constitutedof the carrier component may not be of the same bandwidth and the basestation apparatus and the mobile station apparatus can performcommunication by using the downlink frequency band and the uplinkfrequency band having different bandwidths constituted of the carriercomponent (asymmetric frequency band aggregation described above:asymmetric carrier aggregation).

FIG. 4 is a diagram of an example of a mobile communication system towhich the first embodiment is applicable. Although the first embodimentwill hereinafter be described in terms of a mobile communication systemsubjected to the asymmetric frequency band aggregation as depicted inFIG. 4, this embodiment is applicable to a mobile communication systemsubjected to the symmetric frequency band aggregation. FIG. 4 depictsthat a frequency band (DL system band) used for the downlinkcommunication having a bandwidth of 80 MHz is constituted of fourdownlink carrier components (DCC1, DCC2, DCC3, and DCC4) each having abandwidth of 20 MHz, as an example for explaining this embodiment. Byway of example, it is also depicted that a frequency band (UL systemband) used for the uplink communication having a bandwidth of 40 MHz isconstituted of two uplink carrier components (UCC1 and UCC2) each havinga bandwidth of 20 MHz. In FIG. 4, the downlink/uplink channels such asthe PDCCH, the PDSCH, the PUCCH, and the PUSCH are mapped on each of thedownlink/uplink carrier components. In FIG. 4, there may be thedownlink/uplink carrier components any of the downlink/uplink channelssuch as the PDCCH, the PDSCH, the PUCCH, and the PUSCH are not mapped.

In FIG. 4, it is depicted that the base station apparatus persistentlyallocates the first PUCCH (the PUCCH indicated by horizontal lines) fortransmission of the first control information by the mobile stationapparatus, by using the RRC signaling. It is also depicted that the basestation apparatus dynamically allocates the second PUCCHs (the PUCCHsrespectively indicated by diagonal lines, grid lines, and mesh lines)for transmission of the second control information, in association withPDCCHs (PDCCHs respectively indicated by diagonal lines, grid lines, andmesh lines).

For example, the base station apparatus can dynamically allocate(specify) the second PUCCH for transmission of the second controlinformation by the mobile station apparatus, in association withpositions of one (PDCCH indicated by diagonal lines) or the plurality ofPDCCHs (PDCCHs respectively indicated by grid lines and mesh lines)mapped on one downlink carrier component in PDCCH resources (PDCCHresource areas) (the base station apparatus can specify which PUCCHmapped on which one of the PUCCH resource areas is used for transmittingthe second control information). For example, the PUCCH resources (thePUCCH resource areas) are set by the base station apparatus using thebroadcast channel or the RRC signaling, specifically to a cell or amobile station apparatus. Therefore, the mobile station apparatus canmap the second control information on the PUCCH in the PUCCH resources(the PUCCH resource areas) to transmit the second control information tothe base station apparatus depending on how one or the plurality ofPDCCHs mapped on the one downlink carrier component is mapped in thePDCCH resources (the PDCCH resource areas). A correspondence between oneor the plurality of PDCCHs mapped on the one downlink carrier componentand respective PUCCHs is specified, for example, by making the first CCEindexes of the CCEs constituting respective PDCCHs and the indexes ofrespective PUCCHs correspond (FIG. 4 depicts that the first CCE index ofthe CCEs constituting the PDCCH indicated by diagonal lines correspondsto the index of the PUCCH indicated by diagonal lines, that the firstCCE index the CCEs constituting the PDCCH indicated by grid linescorresponds to the index of the PUCCH indicated by grid lines, and thatthe first CCE index of the CCEs constituting the PDCCH indicated by meshlines corresponds to the index of the PUCCH indicated by mesh lines).

In FIG. 4, the base station apparatus uses the plurality of PDCCHs toallocate the plurality of PDSCHs and transmits to the mobile stationapparatus the control information (such as resource allocationinformation, MCS information, and HARQ process information) fortransmitting the plurality of downlink transport blocks (the pluralityof PDCCHs is used for allocating the plurality of PDSCHs to the mobilestation apparatus). The base station apparatus uses the plurality ofPDSCHs to transmit the plurality of downlink transport blocks in thesame sub-frame to the mobile station apparatus. In FIG. 4, by way ofexample, it is depicted that the base station apparatus uses the PDCCH(the PDCCH indicated by diagonal lines) mapped on DCC1 to allocate thePDSCH mapped on DCC1, and uses the PDCCHs (the PDCCHs respectivelyindicated by grid lines and mesh lines) mapped on DCC3 to allocate thePDSCHs mapped on DCC3 and DCC4. It is also depicted that the basestation apparatus can use the PDSCHs mapped on DCC1, DCC3, and DCC4 totransmit (up to three) downlink transport blocks in the same sub-frameto the mobile station apparatus.

The mobile station apparatus transmits the first control information tothe base station apparatus by using the first PUCCH (the PUCCH indicatedby horizontal lines) persistently allocated by the RRC signaling. Forexample, the mobile station apparatus can periodically transmit thechannel state information (the first control information) to the basestation apparatus by using the first PUCCH persistently allocated. Forexample, the mobile station apparatus can transmit the schedulingrequest (the first control information) to the base station apparatus byusing the first PUCCH persistently allocated when requesting resourceallocation for transmitting the uplink data.

The mobile station apparatus transmits the second control information tothe base station apparatus by using the second PUCCHs (the PUCCHsrespectively indicated by diagonal lines, grid lines, and mesh lines)dynamically allocated in association with the PDCCHs. For example, themobile station apparatus can transmit, to the base station apparatus,the HARQ control information (the second control information) for theplurality of PDCCHs and/or the plurality of downlink transport blocks byusing the second PUCCHs dynamically allocated, in a bundling manner (ina bundle, in a cluster) or in multiplexing manner (by using a pluralityof bits).

Therefore, if the mobile station apparatus transmits the HARQ controlinformation (the second control information) to the base stationapparatus in a bundling manner, the mobile station apparatus cancalculate (generate) one piece of HARQ control information fromrespective pieces of the HARQ control information for the plurality ofPDCCHs and/or the plurality of downlink transport blocks, and cantransmit the one calculated piece of HARQ control information to thebase station apparatus. For example, the mobile station apparatus cancalculate a logical sum from respective pieces of information indicativeof ACK/NACK of HARQ for the plurality of downlink transport blocks totransmit the logical sum to the base station apparatus as informationindicative of one ACK/NACK. In FIG. 4, it is depicted that the mobilestation apparatus calculates a logical sum of respective pieces ofinformation indicative of ACK/NACK of HARQ for the plurality of downlinktransport blocks transmitted in the same sub-frame by using the PDSCHsof DCC1, DCC2, and DCC4 from the base station apparatus, and transmitsthe logical sum to the base station apparatus as information indicativeof one ACK/NACK.

If the mobile station apparatus transmits the HARQ control information(the second control information) to the base station apparatus in amultiplexing manner, the mobile station apparatus can use a plurality ofpieces of control information representative of all the combinations ofrespective pieces of the HARQ control information for the plurality ofPDCCHs and/or the plurality of downlink transport blocks to transmit thecontrol information to the base station apparatus (a plurality of piecesof control information equal to or less than pieces of informationnecessary for representing all the combinations may be used fortransmission to the base station apparatus). For example, the mobilestation apparatus can use a plurality of bits to represent and transmitto the base station apparatus all the combinations of respective piecesof information indicative of ACK/NACK of HARQ for the plurality ofdownlink transport blocks. In FIG. 4, it is depicted that the mobilestation apparatus uses the plurality of bits to represent and transmitto the base station apparatus all the combinations of respective piecesof the HARQ control information for the plurality of PDCCHs and/or theplurality of downlink transport blocks transmitted on DCC1, DCC2, andDCC4 from the base station apparatus.

If the mobile station apparatus transmits the HARQ control information(the second control information) to the base station apparatus in abundling manner or in a multiplexing manner, the mobile stationapparatus uses any PUCCH of the plurality of PUCCHs (the PUCCHsrespectively indicated by diagonal lines, grid lines, and mesh lines) totransmit the control information to the base station apparatus (e.g.,any PUCCH of the plurality of PUCCHs is used for transmitting one-bit ortwo-bit information to the base station apparatus). In this case, themobile station apparatus can include a few more bits of information intothe information transmitted to the base station apparatus depending onwhich PUCCH is used for transmitting the information among the pluralityof PUCCHs prescribed in accordance with how the plurality of PDCCHs ismapped in the PDCCH resources (the PDCCH resource areas) (the positionsand the number of the plurality of PDCCHs in the PDCCH resources) (a fewbits of information can be included into the information transmitted tothe base station apparatus depending on which PUCCH area is used fortransmitting the information among areas where PUCCH can be mapped). Forexample, in FIG. 4, if two-bit information (four types of information)can be transmitted on each of three PUCCHs (the PUCCHs respectivelyindicated by diagonal lines, grid lines, and diagonal lines), the mobilestation apparatus can transmit a total of 12 types of information to thebase station apparatus depending on which PUCCH is used among threePUCCHs (by performing channel selection among three PUCCH). Transmissionof information in this way enables the mobile station apparatus totransmit more information to the base station apparatus and, forexample, the mobile station apparatus can transmit to the base stationapparatus more combinations that represent information indicative ofwhich PDCCHs are received (detected) among the plurality of PDCCHstransmitted from the base station apparatus and the HARQ controlinformation (the second control information).

FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram of the first PUCCH (the PUCCH indicatedby horizontal lines) persistently allocated by the RRC signaling and thesecond PUCCHs (the PUCCHs respectively indicated by diagonal lines, gridlines, and mesh lines) dynamically allocated in association with thePDCCHs. In FIG. 5, by way of example, it is depicted that two PUCCHresources (the PUCCH resource areas) each having a size of “3×4=12” arepresent on each of the uplink carrier components (UCC1, UCC2) (it isdepicted that the PUCCH resources having a total size of “24” arepresent for two PUCCHs distributed and mapped at both ends (edgeportions) of each of UCC1 and UCC2). In this embodiment, resources ofthe PUCCH and the PUSCH allocated by the base station apparatus includefrequency resources, time resources, and code resources.

In FIG. 5, it is depicted that the base station apparatus persistentlyallocates the PUCCH (the PUCCH indicated by horizontal lines) having asize of “3” mapped on UCC2 as the first PUCCH. It is also depicted thatthe base station apparatus dynamically allocates the PUCCHs (the PUCCHsrespectively indicated by diagonal lines, grid lines, and mesh lines)each having a size of “1” mapped on UCC1 and UCC2 as the second PUCCHs.The mobile station apparatus can transmit the first control informationby using the first PUCCH mapped on UCC2 and the second controlinformation by using any PUCCH of the second PUCCHs mapped on UCC1 andUCC2, both in the same sub-frame to the base station apparatus (theplurality of PUCCHs can simultaneously be transmitted). For example, inFIG. 5, the mobile station apparatus can simultaneously transmit thechannel state information (the first control information) by using thefirst PUCCH mapped on UCC2 and the HARQ control information (the secondcontrol information) by using any PUCCH of the second PUCCHs mapped onUCC1 and UCC2 to the base station apparatus. For example, the mobilestation apparatus can simultaneously transmit the scheduling request(the first control information) by using the first PUCCH mapped on UCC2and the HARQ control information (the second control information) byusing any PUCCH of the second PUCCHs mapped on UCC1 and UCC2 to the basestation apparatus.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining operation of the mobile stationapparatus if the physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) is allocated bythe base station apparatus when the mobile station apparatus istransmitting the first control information and the second controlinformation. In this embodiment, for clarity of the description, it isassumed that the mobile station apparatus uses the PUCCH indicated bydiagonal lines mapped on UCC1 (the second PUCCH indicated by diagonallines of FIG. 5) to transmit the second control information to the basestation apparatus.

In FIG. 6, when the mobile station apparatus is transmitting the firstcontrol information by using the first (persistently allocated) PUCCHmapped on UCC2 and the second control information by using the second(dynamically allocated) PUCCH (the PUCCH indicated by diagonal lines)mapped on UCC1, if the PUSCH (the PUSCH indicated by a dot pattern)mapped on UCC1 is allocated by the base station apparatus, the mobilestation apparatus transmits the first control information by using theallocated PUSCH and the second control information by using the secondPUCCH, both in the same sub-frame to the base station apparatus. Inother words, the mobile station apparatus maps (also referred to aspiggy-backs) the first control information that would be transmitted byusing the first PUCCH persistently allocated, onto the PUSCH mapped onUCC1, and performs the simultaneous transmission of the PUSCH and thePUCCH. When the mobile station apparatus maps and transmits both thefirst control information and the uplink data (the UL-SCH) on the PUSCHallocated by the base station apparatus, for example, the time divisionmultiplexing (TDM) or the joint coding is applied to the first controlinformation and the uplink data (the UL-SCH), and the first controlinformation and the uplink data (the UL-SCH) are transmitted to the basestation apparatus.

For example, in FIG. 6, when the mobile station apparatus istransmitting the channel state information (the first controlinformation) by using the first PUCCH mapped on UCC2 and the HARQcontrol information (the second control information) by using the secondPUCCH mapped on UCC1, if the PUSCH mapped on UCC1 is allocated by thebase station apparatus, the mobile station apparatus can simultaneouslytransmit the channel state information (the first control information)by using the allocated PUSCH and the HARQ control information (thesecond control information) by using the second PUCCH. When the mobilestation apparatus is transmitting the scheduling request (the firstcontrol information) by using the first PUCCH mapped on UCC2 and theHARQ control information (the second control information) by using thesecond PUCCH mapped on UCC1, if the PUSCH mapped on UCC1 is allocated bythe base station apparatus, the mobile station apparatus cansimultaneously transmit the schedule request (the first controlinformation) by using the allocated PUSCH and the HARQ controlinformation (the second control information) by using the second PUCCH.

Similarly, FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining operation of the mobilestation apparatus if the PUSCH is allocated by the base stationapparatus when the mobile station apparatus is transmitting the firstcontrol information and the second control information. In FIG. 7, whenthe mobile station apparatus is transmitting the first controlinformation by using the first (persistently allocated) PUCCH mapped onUCC2 and the second control information by using the second (dynamicallyallocated) PUCCH (the PUCCH indicated by diagonal lines) mapped on UCC1,if the PUSCH (the PUSCH indicated by a dot pattern) mapped on UCC2 isallocated by the base station apparatus, the mobile station apparatustransmits the first control information by using the allocated PUSCH andthe second control information by using the second PUCCH, both in thesame sub-frame to the base station apparatus. In other words, the mobilestation apparatus maps the first control information that would betransmitted by using the first PUCCH persistently allocated, onto thePUSCH mapped on UCC2, and performs the simultaneous transmission of thePUSCH and the PUCCH.

In this embodiment, the HARQ control information for the downlinktransport blocks transmitted on the resources persistently allocated bythe base station apparatus may be included in either the first controlinformation or the second control information. If the HARQ controlinformation for the downlink transport blocks transmitted on theresources persistently allocated by the base station apparatus isdefined as the first control information, the managements of thepersistently allocated resources and the dynamically allocated resourcescan be separated, thereby facilitating estimation of overhead in thebase station apparatus. On the other hand, if the HARQ controlinformation for the downlink transport blocks transmitted on theresources persistently allocated by the base station is defined as thesecond control information, the effect of multiplexing of the HARQcontrol information can be acquired.

As described above, in the mobile communication system including thebase station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus using thecarrier components in a multiple manner to perform communication in awider frequency band, when the mobile station apparatus is transmittingthe first control information by using the first PUCCH persistentlyallocated and the second control information by using the second PUCCHdynamically allocated, if the PUSCH is allocated by the base stationapparatus, the mobile station apparatus transmits the first controlinformation by using the allocated PUSCH and the second controlinformation by using the second PUCCH to the base station apparatus,thereby performing the simultaneous transmission of the data(information) on the plurality of PUSCHs and PUCCHs with thetransmission power in the mobile station apparatus suppressed to a lowerlevel. Since the mobile station apparatus maps the first controlinformation that would be transmitted on the first PUCCH persistentlyallocated, onto the PUSCH allocated by the base station apparatus, andperforms the simultaneous transmission of the PUSCH and the PUCCH, themobile station apparatus can reduce (limit) the number of uplinkchannels simultaneously transmitted to the base station apparatus,thereby suppressing the transmission power in the mobile stationapparatus to a lower level (the simultaneous transmission withtransmission on the PUCCH reduced (limited) enables the mobile stationapparatus to suppress the transmission power to a lower level).

Second Embodiment

A second embodiment of the present invention will be described. In thesecond embodiment, the base station apparatus can persistently allocatethe plurality of the first PUCCHs for transmission of the first controlinformation by the mobile station apparatus, in the same sub-frame byusing the RRC signaling. The base station apparatus can persistentlyallocate the plurality of the first PUCCHs for transmission of each ofthe plurality of pieces of the first control information by the mobilestation apparatus, in the same sub-frame by using the RRC signaling. Theother points are the same as the first embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a conceptual diagram of the plurality of the first PUCCHs (thePUCCHs respectively indicated by horizontal lines and painting black)persistently allocated by the RRC signaling and the second PUCCHs (thePUCCHs respectively indicated by diagonal lines, grid lines, and meshlines) dynamically allocated in association with the PDCCHs. In FIG. 8,it is depicted that the base station apparatus persistently allocatesthe PUCCHs (the PUCCHs indicated by horizontal lines and painting black)each having a size of “3” mapped on UCC1 and UCC2 as the first PUCCHs.It is also depicted that the base station apparatus dynamicallyallocates the PUCCHs (the PUCCHs respectively indicated by diagonallines, grid lines, and mesh lines) each having a size of “1” mapped onUCC1 and UCC2 as the second PUCCHs. In the second embodiment, forclarity of the description, it is assumed that the mobile stationapparatus uses the second PUCCH indicated by diagonal lines mapped onUCC1 to transmit the second control information to the base stationapparatus.

In FIG. 8, the mobile station apparatus transmits the first controlinformation to the base station apparatus by using the plurality of thefirst (persistently allocated) PUCCHs mapped on UCC1 and UCC2. Forexample, the mobile station apparatus can transmit the first controlinformation to which the joint coding is applied to the base stationapparatus by using the plurality of the first PUCCHs. In this case, themobile station apparatus can transmit the first control information tothe base station apparatus by applying the code division multiplexing(CDM) or the frequency division multiplexing (FDM) of the plurality ofthe first PUCCHs. The frequency division multiplexing (FDM) across theuplink carrier components (UCC1, UCC2) may be applied to the pluralityof the first PUCCHs. In other words, the base station apparatus canpersistently allocate to the same sub-frame the plurality of the firstPUCCHs for transmission of the first control information by the mobilestation apparatus. In FIG. 8, it is depicted that the mobile stationapparatus transmits the first control information by using the pluralityof the first PUCCHs mapped on UCC1 and UCC2, and the second controlinformation by using the second PUCCH mapped on UCC1, both in the samesub-frame to the base station apparatus (the simultaneous transmissionof the plurality of PUCCHs is performed).

For example, in FIG. 8, the mobile station apparatus can simultaneouslytransmit the channel state information (the first control information)by using the plurality of the first PUCCHs mapped on UCC1 and UCC2, andthe HARQ control information (the second control information) by usingthe second PUCCH mapped on UCC1. For example, the mobile stationapparatus can simultaneously transmit the scheduling request (the firstcontrol information) by using the plurality of the first PUCCHs mappedon UCC1 and UCC2, and the HARQ control information (the second controlinformation) by using the second PUCCH mapped on UCC1.

In FIG. 8, the mobile station apparatus can transmit each of theplurality of pieces of the first control information to the base stationapparatus by using the plurality of the first (persistently allocated)PUCCHs mapped on UCC1 and UCC2. For example, the mobile stationapparatus can separately transmit each of the plurality of pieces of thefirst control information to the base station apparatus by using theplurality of the first PUCCHs. In other words, the base stationapparatus can persistently allocate in the same sub-frame the pluralityof the first PUCCHs for transmission of each of the plurality of piecesof the first control information by the mobile station apparatus.

In this case, the mobile station apparatus can transmit the firstcontrol information and the second control information by using thefirst and/or second PUCCHs mapped on UCC1, and the first controlinformation by using the first PUCCH mapped on UCC2, both in the samesub-frame to the base station apparatus (the simultaneous transmissionof the plurality of PUCCH can be performed). When the mobile stationapparatus transmits both the first control information and the secondcontrol information by using the first and/or second PUCCHs mapped onUCC1, for example, the first control information and the second controlinformation are transmitted to the base station apparatus by applyingthe time division multiplexing (TDM), the joint coding, the codedivision multiplexing (CDM), or the frequency division multiplexing(FDM).

For example, in FIG. 8, the mobile station apparatus can simultaneouslytransmit the channel state information (the first control information)and the HARQ control information (the second control information) byusing the first and/or second PUCCHs mapped on UCC1 and the channelstate information (the first control information) by using the firstPUCCH mapped on UCC2. In this case, the channel state informationtransmitted by using the first and/or second PUCCHs mapped on UCC1 canindicate the channel states for DCC1 and DCC2 of FIG. 4, for example,and the channel state information transmitted by using the first PUCCHmapped on UCC2 can indicate the channel states for DCC3 and DCC4 of FIG.4, for example. The channel state information transmitted by the mobilestate apparatus may be other pieces of information, and which downlinkcarrier component has the channel state information transmitted by anuplink carrier component (a correspondence between the downlink carriercomponent and the uplink carrier component) is settable by the broadcastchannel or the RRC signaling from the base station apparatusspecifically to a cell or specifically to a mobile station apparatus.

For example, the mobile station apparatus can simultaneously transmitthe scheduling request (the first control information) and the HARQcontrol information (the second control information) by using the firstand/or second PUCCHs mapped on UCC1 and the scheduling request (thefirst control information) by using the first PUCCH mapped on UCC2. Inthis case, the scheduling request (the first control information)transmitted by using the first and/or second PUCCHs mapped on UCC1 canrequest resource allocation for transmitting the uplink data on UCC1 andUCC2 of FIG. 4, for example, and the scheduling request (the firstcontrol information) transmitted by using the first PUCCH mapped on UCC2can also request resource allocation for transmitting the uplink data onUCC1 and UCC2 of FIG. 4 (i.e., the scheduling request can requestresource allocation to all the uplink carrier components).

FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining operation of the mobile stationapparatus if PUSCH is allocated by the base station apparatus when themobile station apparatus is transmitting the first control informationand the second control information. As described above, it is assumedthat the mobile station apparatus uses the PUCCH indicated by diagonallines mapped on UCC1 (the second PUCCH indicated by diagonal lines ofFIG. 5) to transmit the second control information to the base stationapparatus.

In FIG. 9, when the mobile station apparatus is transmitting the firstcontrol information by using the plurality of the first (persistentlyallocated) PUCCHs mapped on UCC1 and UCC2, and the second controlinformation by using the second (dynamically allocated) PUCCH (the PUCCHindicated by diagonal lines) mapped on UCC1, if the PUSCH (the PUSCHindicated by a dot pattern) mapped on UCC1 is allocated by the basestation apparatus, the mobile station apparatus transmits the firstcontrol information by using the allocated PUSCH and the second controlinformation by using the second PUCCH, both in the same sub-frame to thebase station apparatus. In other words, the mobile station apparatusmaps (piggy-backs) the first control information that would betransmitted by using the first PUCCH persistently allocated, onto thePUSCH mapped on UCC1, and performs the simultaneous transmission of thePUSCH and the PUCCH.

For example, in FIG. 9, when the mobile station apparatus istransmitting the channel state information (the first controlinformation) by using the plurality of the first PUCCHs mapped on UCC1and UCC2, and the HARQ control information (the second controlinformation) by using the second PUCCH mapped on UCC1, if the PUSCHmapped on UCC1 is allocated by the base station apparatus, the mobilestation apparatus can simultaneously transmit the channel stateinformation (the first control information) by using the allocated PUSCHand the HARQ control information (the second control information) byusing the second PUCCH. In other words, when the mobile stationapparatus is transmitting the channel state information (the firstcontrol information) by using the plurality of the first PUCCHs mappedon UCC1 and UCC2, if the PUSCH mapped on UCC1 is allocated by the basestation apparatus, the mobile station apparatus can simultaneouslytransmit the channel state information (the first control information)by using the allocated PUSCH together with the HARQ control information(the second control information).

For example, when the mobile station apparatus is transmitting thescheduling request (the first control information) by using theplurality of the first PUCCHs mapped on UCC1 and UCC2, and the HARQcontrol information (the second control information) by using the secondPUCCH mapped on UCC1, if the PUSCH mapped on UCC1 is allocated by thebase station apparatus, the mobile station apparatus can simultaneouslytransmit the scheduling request (the first control information) by usingthe allocated PUSCH and the HARQ control information (the second controlinformation) by using the second PUCCH to the base station apparatus. Inother words, when the mobile station apparatus is transmitting thescheduling request (the first control information) by using theplurality of the first PUCCHs mapped on UCC1 and UCC2, if the PUSCHmapped on UCC1 is allocated by the base station apparatus, the mobilestation apparatus can simultaneously transmit the scheduling request(the first control information) by using the allocated PUSCH togetherwith the HARQ control information (the second control information).

Similarly, FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining operation of the mobilestation apparatus if the PUSCH is allocated by the base stationapparatus when the mobile station apparatus simultaneously transmits thefirst control information and the second control information by usingthe plurality of PUCCHs. In FIG. 10, when the mobile station apparatusis transmitting the first control information by using the first(persistently allocated) PUCCHs mapped on UCC1 and UCC2, and the secondcontrol information by using the second (dynamically allocated) PUCCH(the PUCCH indicated by diagonal lines) mapped on UCC1, if the PUSCH(the PUSCH indicated by a dot pattern) mapped on UCC2 is allocated bythe base station apparatus, the mobile station apparatus transmits thefirst control information by using the allocated PUSCH and the secondcontrol information by using the second PUCCH, both in the samesub-frame to the base station apparatus. In other words, the mobilestation apparatus maps the first control information that would betransmitted by using the first PUCCH persistently allocated, onto thePUSCH mapped on UCC2, and performs the simultaneous transmission of thePUSCH and the PUCCH.

FIG. 11 depicts an example when the mobile station apparatus maps boththe first control information and the uplink data (the UL-SCH) on thePUSCH allocated by the base station apparatus. In FIG. 11, it isdepicted that the first control information to which the joint coding isapplied (indicated by fine mesh lines), the uplink data (the UL-SCH)(indicated by painting white), and the pilot signals (the RS: thereference symbols) (indicated by vertical lines) are mapped on the PUSCHallocated by the base station apparatus.

As depicted in FIG. 11, if the mobile station apparatus maps the firstcontrol information and the uplink data (the UL-SCH) on the PUSCHallocated by the base station apparatus, the mobile station apparatusmaps the first control information in the time axis direction (thedirection of row index in a matrix before DFT) and then in the frequencyaxis direction (the direction of column index in a matrix before DFT)after the first control information is mapped on all the areas (e.g.,all the SC-FDMA symbols) in the time axis direction (after the firstcontrol information is mapped on 12 SC-FDMA symbols except RS) (referredto as time-first mapping). Although this matrix has the sameconfiguration as mapping of resource elements, the matrix is spread inthe frequency direction because a DFT process is eventually executed forthis matrix. The number of areas on which the first control information(e.g., the number of SC-FDMA symbols) is mapped, is varied depending onMCS (modulation scheme and/or coding scheme) for the PUSCH allocated bythe base station apparatus and a resource size (a size of the PUSCHresource allocated as a time domain and/or a frequency domain) (MCS(modulation scheme and/or coding scheme) of the first controlinformation may be fixed to default values). The uplink data (theUL-SCH) is mapped by the time-first mapping after the first controlinformation is mapped. Since the mobile station apparatus maps andtransmits to the base station apparatus both the first controlinformation and the uplink data (the UL-SCH) on the PUSCH with thepredefined mapping method as described above, it is not necessary toreceive an indication related to mapping from the base station apparatusand the downlink radio resources can efficiently be used for performingthe simultaneous transmission of the PUSCH and the PUCCH.

FIG. 12 depicts another example when the mobile station apparatus mapsboth each of the plurality of pieces of the first control informationand the uplink data (the UL-SCH) on PUSCH allocated by the base stationapparatus. In FIG. 12, it is depicted that each of the plurality ofindependent pieces of the first control information (respectivelyindicated by painting black and horizontal lines), the uplink data (theUL-SCH) (indicated by painting white), and the pilot signals (the RS)(indicated by vertical lines) are mapped on the PUSCH allocated by thebase station apparatus.

As depicted in FIG. 12, if the mobile station apparatus maps each pieceof the first control information and the uplink data (the UL-SCH) on thePUSCH allocated by the base station apparatus, for example, the mobilestation apparatus adds index to each of the plurality of pieces of thefirst control information and maps the first control information inincreasing order of the index by the time-first mapping. In FIG. 12, itis depicted that the index is added depending on a frequency position ofthe uplink carrier components (UCC1, UCC2) (in increasing order (ordecreasing order) of frequency), and the mobile station apparatus firstmaps the first control information that would be transmitted on thefirst PUCCH mapped on UCC1 with a lower index (at a lower (or higher)frequency position), and subsequently maps the first control informationthat would be transmitted on the first PUCCH mapped on UCC2 with ahigher index (at a higher (or lower) frequency position). After each ofthe plurality of pieces of the first control information is mapped inincreasing order (or decreasing order) of the index, the uplink data(the UL-SCH) is mapped by the time-first mapping. Since the mobilestation apparatus maps and transmits to the base station apparatus botheach of the plurality of pieces of the first control information and theuplink data (the UL-SCH) on PUSCH with the predefined mapping method asdescribed above, it is not necessary to receive an indication related tomapping from the base station apparatus and the downlink radio resourcescan efficiently be used for performing the simultaneous transmission ofthe PUSCH and the PUCCH.

FIG. 13 depicts a further example when the mobile station apparatus mapsboth each of the plurality of pieces of the first control informationand the uplink data (the UL-SCH) on PUSCH allocated by the base stationapparatus. In FIG. 13, it is depicted that each of the plurality ofindependent pieces of the first control information (respectivelyindicated by painting black and horizontal lines), the uplink data (theUL-SCH) (indicated by painting white), and the pilot signals (RS)(indicated by vertical lines) are mapped on the PUSCH allocated by thebase station apparatus.

As depicted in FIG. 13, if the mobile station apparatus maps each pieceof the first control information and the uplink data (the UL-SCH) on thePUSCH allocated by the base station apparatus, for example, the mobilestation apparatus first maps the first control information that would betransmitted on the first PUCCH mapped on the uplink carrier componentsto which the PUSCH is allocated, by the time-first mapping. In FIG. 13,it is depicted that the base station apparatus allocates the PUSCHmapped on UCC2, and the mobile station apparatus first maps the firstcontrol information that would be transmitted on the first PUCCH mappedon UCC2 and subsequently maps the first control information that wouldbe transmitted on the first PUCCH mapped on UCC1. The uplink data (theUL-SCH) is mapped by the time-first mapping after each of the pluralityof pieces of the first control information is mapped. Since the mobilestation apparatus maps and transmits to the base station apparatus botheach of the plurality of pieces of the first control information and theuplink data (the UL-SCH) on PUSCH with the predefined mapping method asdescribed above, it is not necessary to receive an indication related tomapping from the base station apparatus and the downlink radio resourcescan efficiently be used for performing the simultaneous transmission ofthe PUSCH and the PUCCH.

In this embodiment, the HARQ control information for the downlinktransport blocks transmitted on the resource persistently allocated bythe base station apparatus may be included in either the first controlinformation or the second control information. If the HARQ controlinformation for the downlink transport blocks transmitted on theresource persistently allocated by the base station apparatus is definedas the first control information, the managements of the persistentlyallocated resource and the dynamically allocated resource can beseparated, thereby facilitating estimation of overhead in the basestation apparatus. On the other hand, if the HARQ control informationfor the downlink transport blocks transmitted by the resourcepersistently allocated by the base station is defined as the secondcontrol information, the effect of multiplexing of the HARQ controlinformation can be acquired.

As described above, in the mobile communication system including thebase station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus using thecarrier components in a multiple manner to perform communication in awider frequency band, when the mobile station apparatus is transmittingthe first control information and the second control information byusing the plurality of persistently and dynamically allocated PUCCHs, ifthe PUSCH is allocated by the base station apparatus, the mobile stationapparatus transmits the first control information by using the allocatedPUSCH and the second control information by using the second PUCCH tothe base station apparatus, thereby performing the simultaneoustransmission of the data (information) on the plurality of the PUCCHsand the PUCCHs with the transmission power in the mobile stationapparatus suppressed to a lower level. Since the mobile stationapparatus maps the first control information that would be transmittedon the first PUCCH persistently allocated, onto the PUSCH allocated bythe base station apparatus, and performs the simultaneous transmissionof the PUSCH and the PUCCH, the mobile station apparatus can reduce(limit) the number of uplink channels simultaneously transmitted to thebase station apparatus, thereby suppressing the transmission power inthe mobile station apparatus to a lower level (the simultaneoustransmission with transmission on the PUCCH reduced (limited) enablesthe mobile station apparatus to suppress the transmission power to alower level).

Third Embodiment

A third embodiment of the present invention will be described. In thethird embodiment, if the mobile station apparatuses described in thefirst embodiment and the second embodiment receive transmissionpermission information from the base station apparatus that givesindication for transmitting all the control information (the firstcontrol information and the second control information) on allocatedPUSCH, the mobile station apparatuses can transmit all the controlinformation (the first control information and the second controlinformation) on the allocated PUSCH.

FIG. 14 is a diagram for explaining operation of the mobile stationapparatus if the PUSCH is allocated by the base station apparatus whenthe mobile station apparatus described in the first embodiment istransmitting the first control information and the second controlinformation. In this embodiment, for clarity of the description, it isassumed that the mobile station apparatus uses the PUCCH indicated bydiagonal lines mapped on UCC1 (the second PUCCH indicated by diagonallines of FIG. 5) to transmit the second control information to the basestation apparatus.

In FIG. 14, the base station apparatus transmits to the mobile stationapparatus the transmission permission information that gives indicationfor transmitting all the control information (the first controlinformation and the second control information) on allocated PUSCH. Thistransmission permission information is included, for example, in the RRCsignaling or the uplink transmission permission signal and transmittedto the mobile station apparatus. When the mobile station apparatusreceiving this transmission permission information transmits the firstcontrol information and the second control information, if the PUSCH(the PUSCH indicated by a dot pattern) is allocated by the base stationapparatus, the mobile station apparatus maps all the control information(the first control information and the second control information) onthe allocated PUSCH to transmit the control information to the basestation apparatus. In other words, when the mobile station apparatus istransmitting the first control information by using the first(persistently allocated) PUCCH mapped on UCC2 and the second controlinformation by using the second (dynamically allocated) PUCCH mapped onUCC1, if the PUSCH mapped on UCC1 (the PUSCH indicated by a dot pattern)is allocated by the base station apparatus, the mobile station apparatususes the allocated PUSCH to transmit all the control information (thefirst control information and the second control information) to thebase station apparatus. If the PUSCH mapped on UCC2 is allocated by thebase station apparatus, the mobile station apparatus naturally performsthe same operation.

Similarly, FIG. 15 is a diagram for explaining operation of the mobilestation apparatus if the PUSCH is allocated by the base stationapparatus when the mobile station apparatus described in the secondembodiment is transmitting the first control information and the secondcontrol information. In FIG. 15, the base station apparatus transmits tothe mobile station apparatus the transmission permission informationthat gives indication for transmitting all the control information (thefirst control information and the second control information) onallocated PUSCH. When the mobile station apparatus receiving thistransmission permission information transmits the first controlinformation and the second control information, if the PUSCH (the PUSCHindicated by a dot pattern) is allocated by the base station apparatus,the mobile station apparatus maps all the control information (the firstcontrol information and the second control information) on the allocatedPUSCH to transmit the control information to the base station apparatus.In other words, when the mobile station apparatus is transmitting thefirst control information and the second control information (by usingthe first PUCCH and/or the second PUCCH persistently or dynamicallyallocated), if the PUSCH mapped on UCC1 (the PUSCH indicated by a dotpattern) is allocated by the base station apparatus, the mobile stationapparatus uses the allocated PUSCH to transmit all the controlinformation (the first control information and the second controlinformation) to the base station apparatus. If the PUSCH mapped on UCC2is allocated by the base station apparatus, the mobile station apparatusnaturally performs the same operation.

FIG. 16 depicts an example when the mobile station apparatus maps thefirst control information, the second control information, and theuplink data (the UL-SCH) all on the PUSCH allocated by the base stationapparatus. In FIG. 16, it is depicted that the first control information(indicated by fine mesh lines), the second control information(indicated by painting black), the uplink data (the UL-SCH) (indicatedby painting white), and the pilot signals (the RS) (indicated byvertical lines) are mapped on the PUSCH allocated by the base stationapparatus. Although the joint coding is applied to the first controlinformation in this example, the first control information mapped on thePUSCH may be each of the plurality of independent pieces of the firstcontrol information.

As depicted in FIG. 16, if the mobile station apparatus maps the firstcontrol information, the second control information, and the uplink data(the UL-SCH) on the allocated PUSCH, the mobile station apparatus firstmaps the first control information by the time-first mapping. The mobilestation apparatus then maps the uplink data (the UL-SCH) by thetime-first mapping after the first control information is mapped. Themobile station apparatus subsequently maps the second controlinformation adjacently to the RS as depicted in FIG. 16. In this case,the second control information is mapped by overwriting the uplink data(the UL-SCH) (also referred to as mapping the second control informationby puncturing the uplink data (the UL-SCH)). Although FIG. 16 depicts,by way of example, that the second control information is mapped onareas available for mapping (four areas adjacent to the RS, i.e., fourareas that are third, fifth, tenth, and twelfth areas in increasingorder along the time axis among 14 areas in the time axis direction),the areas on which the second control information is mapped (the numberof areas where the mobile station apparatus maps the second controlinformation to be transmitted) may be included in the PDCCH (the uplinktransmission permission signal) from the base station apparatus andindicated to the mobile station apparatus.

For example, the base station apparatus can include and transmitinformation of “2” in the PDCCH (the uplink transmission permissionsignal) as areas where the mobile station apparatus maps the secondcontrol information (the number of areas on which the second controlinformation to be transmitted is mapped). The mobile station apparatusreceiving this information ensures a size of “2” (e.g., two SC-FDMAsymbols) as areas on which the second control information is mapped,mapping the second control information on the ensured areas fortransmission to the base station apparatus. For example, if the basestation apparatus maps and transmits the HARQ control information (thesecond control information) for the PDCCH and/or the downlink transportblocks on the allocated PUSCH, the base station apparatus can transmit(specify) the information indicative of the (total) number of the PDCCHsand/or the PDSCHs transmitted in the same sub-frame from the basestation apparatus, to the mobile station apparatus. The mobile stationapparatus ensures the PUSCH areas in accordance with the informationindicative of the (total) number of the PDSCHs and/or the PDSCHstransmitted in the same sub-frame transmitted from the base stationapparatus, and maps the second control information on the ensured PUSCHfor transmission to the base station apparatus. Since the base stationapparatus and the mobile station apparatus transmit/receive theinformation indicative of the (total) number of the PDCCHs and/or thePDSCHs transmitted in the same sub-frame, flexible control can beimplemented for the PUSCH areas where the mobile station apparatus mapsthe second control information, enabling effective use of the PUSCHareas.

Since the mobile station apparatus maps the second control informationadjacent to the RS, deterioration due to channel estimation error in thebase station apparatus can be alleviated in accuracy of composition ofthe second control information, and strong resistance to channelfluctuations can be given. Since the mobile station apparatus maps andtransmits to the base station apparatus the first control information,the second control information, and the uplink data (the UL-SCH) all onPUSCH with the predefined mapping method as described above, it is notnecessary to receive an indication related to mapping from the basestation apparatus and the downlink radio resources can efficiently beused for performing the simultaneous transmission of the controlinformation and the uplink data (the UL-SCH).

As described above, in the mobile communication system including thebase station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus using thecarrier components in a multiple manner to perform communication in awider frequency band, when the mobile station apparatus receives fromthe base station apparatus the transmission permission information thatgives indication for transmitting all the control information (the firstcontrol information and the second control information) on allocatedPUSCH, if the PUSCH is allocated by the base station apparatus, themobile station apparatus transmits all the control information (thefirst control information and the second control information) on theallocated PUSCH, thereby performing the simultaneous transmission of thedata (information) with the transmission power in the mobile stationapparatus suppressed to a lower level. Since the mobile stationapparatus maps and transmits all the control information (the firstcontrol information and the second control information) on the PUSCHallocated by the base station apparatus, the mobile station apparatuscan reduce (limit) the number of uplink channels simultaneouslytransmitted to the base station apparatus, thereby suppressing thetransmission power in the mobile station apparatus to a lower level (thesimultaneous transmission with transmission on the PUCCH reduced(limited) enables the mobile station apparatus to suppress thetransmission power to a lower level). Since the base station apparatustransmits the transmission permission information that gives indicationfor transmitting all the control information (the first controlinformation and the second control information) on allocated PUSCH,whether all the control information is mapped and transmitted on PUSCHcan be switched in the mobile station apparatus, and more flexibletransmission control can be implemented.

The embodiments described above are also applied to integratecircuits/chipsets equipped in the base station apparatus and the mobilestation apparatus. In the embodiments described above, a program forimplementing the functions in the base station apparatus or thefunctions in the mobile station apparatus may be recorded in a computerreadable recording medium and the program recorded in this recordingmedium may be read and executed by a computer system to control the basestation apparatus or the mobile station apparatus. A “computer system”as used herein is assumed to include OS and hardware such asperipherals.

A “computer readable recording medium” means a portable medium such as aflexible disk, a magnetic optical disk, ROM, or CD-ROM, and a storagedevice such as a hard disk built into a computer system. A “computerreadable recording medium” is assumed to include those dynamicallyretaining a program for a short time like a network such as the Internetand communication wires when a program is transmitted through acommunication line such as a telephone line, and those retaining aprogram for a certain time like a volatile memory within a computersystem acting as a server or a client in such a case. The program may befor the purpose of implementing a portion of the functions and may be aprogram capable of implementing the functions in combination with aprogram already recorded in a computer system.

As described in detail above, the present invention can use thefollowing means.

A mobile communication system is a mobile communication system having amobile station apparatus transmitting a plurality of uplink data in asame sub-frame to a base station apparatus by using a physical uplinkshared channel mapped on each of a plurality of carrier components,wherein the base station apparatus allocates a first physical uplinkcontrol channel for transmission of first control information by themobile station apparatus, persistently to the mobile station apparatusby using a radio resource control signal, the base station apparatusallocates a second physical uplink control channel for transmission ofsecond control information by the mobile station apparatus dynamicallyto the mobile station apparatus in association with a physical downlinkcontrol channel, and if the physical uplink shared channel is allocated,the mobile station apparatus transmits the first control information byusing the physical uplink shared channel and the second controlinformation by using the second physical uplink control channel, both inthe same sub-frame to the base station apparatus.

A mobile communication system is a mobile communication system having amobile station apparatus transmitting a plurality of uplink data in asame sub-frame to a base station apparatus by using a physical uplinkshared channel mapped on each of a plurality of carrier components,wherein the base station apparatus allocates a plurality of firstphysical uplink control channels for transmission of first controlinformation by the mobile station apparatus in the same sub-framepersistently to the mobile station apparatus by using a radio resourcecontrol signal, the base station apparatus allocates a second physicaluplink control channel for transmission of second control information bythe mobile station apparatus, dynamically to the mobile stationapparatus in association with a physical downlink control channel, andif the physical uplink shared channel is allocated, the mobile stationapparatus transmits the first control information by using the physicaluplink shared channel and the second control information by using thesecond physical uplink control channel, both in the same sub-frame tothe base station apparatus.

A mobile communication system is a mobile communication system having amobile station apparatus transmitting a plurality of uplink data in asame sub-frame to a base station apparatus by using a physical uplinkshared channel mapped on each of a plurality of carrier components,wherein the base station apparatus allocates a plurality of firstphysical uplink control channels for transmission of each of a pluralityof pieces of first control information by the mobile station apparatus,in the same sub-frame persistently to the mobile station apparatus byusing a radio resource control signal, the base station apparatusallocates a second physical uplink control channel for transmission ofsecond control information by the mobile station apparatus dynamicallyto the mobile station apparatus in association with a physical downlinkcontrol channel, and if the physical uplink shared channel is allocated,the mobile station apparatus transmits the plurality of pieces of thefirst control information by using the physical uplink shared channeland the second control information by using the second physical uplinkcontrol channel, both in the same sub-frame to the base stationapparatus.

The mobile station apparatus maps each of the plurality of pieces of thefirst control information on the physical uplink shared channel inincreasing order of index to perform transmission to the base stationapparatus.

The first control information is channel state information indicative ofa downlink channel state.

The first control information is a scheduling request that requestsresource allocation for transmitting uplink data.

The first control information is the HARQ control information for adownlink transport block transmitted by a resource persistentlyallocated by the base station apparatus.

The second control information is the HARQ control information for aphysical downlink control channel and/or a downlink transport block.

The second control information is the HARQ control information for aphysical downlink control channel and/or a downlink transport blocktransmitted by a resource dynamically allocated by the base stationapparatus.

The second control information is the HARQ control information for adownlink transport block transmitted by a resource persistentlyallocated by the base station apparatus.

A mobile station apparatus is a mobile station apparatus transmitting aplurality of uplink data in a same sub-frame to a base station apparatusby using a physical uplink shared channel mapped on each of a pluralityof carrier components, comprising: a means for receiving from the basestation apparatus a radio resource control signal that persistentlyallocates a first physical uplink control channel for transmitting firstcontrol information; a means for receiving from the base stationapparatus a physical downlink control channel associated with a secondphysical uplink control channel, the physical downlink control channeldynamically allocating a second physical uplink control channel fortransmitting second control information; and a means for transmittingthe first control information by using the physical uplink sharedchannel and the second control information by using the second physicaluplink control channel, both in the same sub-frame to the base stationapparatus if the physical uplink shared channel is allocated by the basestation apparatus.

A mobile station apparatus is a mobile station apparatus transmitting aplurality of uplink data in a same sub-frame to a base station apparatusby using a physical uplink shared channel mapped on each of a pluralityof carrier components, comprising: a means for receiving from the basestation apparatus a radio resource control signal that persistentlyallocates in a same sub-frame a plurality of first physical uplinkcontrol channels for transmitting first control information; a means forreceiving from the base station apparatus a physical downlink controlchannel associated with a second physical uplink control channel, thephysical downlink control channel dynamically allocating a secondphysical uplink control channel for transmitting second controlinformation; and a means for transmitting the first control informationby using the physical uplink shared channel and the second controlinformation by using the second physical uplink control channel, both inthe same sub-frame to the base station apparatus if the physical uplinkshared channel is allocated by the base station apparatus.

A mobile station apparatus is a mobile station apparatus transmitting aplurality of uplink data in a same sub-frame to a base station apparatusby using a physical uplink shared channel mapped on each of a pluralityof carrier components, comprising: a means for receiving from the basestation apparatus a radio resource control signal that persistentlyallocates in a same sub-frame a plurality of first physical uplinkcontrol channels for transmitting each of a plurality of pieces of firstcontrol information; a means for receiving from the base stationapparatus a physical downlink control channel associated with a secondphysical uplink control channel, the physical downlink control channeldynamically allocating a second physical uplink control channel fortransmitting second control information; and a means for transmittingthe plurality of pieces of the first control information by using thephysical uplink shared channel and the second control information byusing the second physical uplink control channel, both in the samesub-frame to the base station apparatus if the physical uplink sharedchannel is allocated by the base station apparatus.

The mobile station apparatus maps each of the plurality of pieces of thefirst control information on the physical uplink shared channel inincreasing order of index to perform transmission to the base stationapparatus.

A mobile communication method is a communication method in a mobilestation apparatus transmitting a plurality of uplink data in a samesub-frame to a base station apparatus by using a physical uplink sharedchannel mapped on each of a plurality of carrier components, comprising:receiving from the base station apparatus a radio resource controlsignal that persistently allocates a first physical uplink controlchannel for transmitting first control information; receiving from thebase station apparatus a physical downlink control channel associatedwith a second physical uplink control channel, the physical downlinkcontrol channel dynamically allocating a second physical uplink controlchannel for transmitting second control information; and transmittingthe first control information by using the physical uplink sharedchannel and the second control information by using the second physicaluplink control channel, both in the same sub-frame to the base stationapparatus if the physical uplink shared channel is allocated by the basestation apparatus.

A mobile communication method is a communication method in a mobilestation apparatus transmitting a plurality of uplink data in a samesub-frame to a base station apparatus by using a physical uplink sharedchannel mapped on each of a plurality of carrier components, comprising:receiving from the base station apparatus a radio resource controlsignal that persistently allocates in a same sub-frame a plurality offirst physical uplink control channels for transmitting first controlinformation; receiving from the base station apparatus a physicaldownlink control channel associated with a second physical uplinkcontrol channel, the physical downlink control channel dynamicallyallocating a second physical uplink control channel for transmittingsecond control information; and transmitting the first controlinformation by using the physical uplink shared channel and the secondcontrol information by using the second physical uplink control channel,both in the same sub-frame to the base station apparatus if the physicaluplink shared channel is allocated by the base station apparatus.

A mobile communication method is a communication method in a mobilestation apparatus transmitting a plurality of uplink data in a samesub-frame to a base station apparatus by using a physical uplink sharedchannel mapped on each of a plurality of carrier components, comprising:receiving from the base station apparatus a radio resource controlsignal that persistently allocates in a same sub-frame a plurality offirst physical uplink control channels for transmitting each of aplurality of pieces of first control information; receiving from thebase station apparatus a physical downlink control channel associatedwith a second physical uplink control channel, the physical downlinkcontrol channel dynamically allocating a second physical uplink controlchannel for transmitting second control information; and transmittingthe plurality of pieces of the first control information by using thephysical uplink shared channel and the second control information byusing the second physical uplink control channel, both in the samesub-frame to the base station apparatus if the physical uplink sharedchannel is allocated by the base station apparatus.

The mobile station apparatus maps each of the plurality of pieces of thefirst control information on the physical uplink shared channel inincreasing order of index to perform transmission to the base stationapparatus.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described indetail with reference to the drawings, specific configurations are notlimited to the embodiments and the claims include designs etc., within arange not departing from the spirit of the present invention.

EXPLANATIONS OF LETTERS OR NUMERALS

100 . . . base station apparatus; 101 . . . data control portion; 102 .. . transmission data modulating portion; 103 . . . radio portion; 104 .. . scheduling portion; 105 . . . channel estimating portion; 106 . . .reception data demodulating portion; 107 . . . data extracting portion;108 . . . higher layer; 109 . . . antenna; 110 . . . radio resourcecontrol portion; 200 . . . mobile station apparatus; 201 . . . datacontrol portion; 202 . . . transmission data modulating portion; 203 . .. radio portion; 204 . . . scheduling portion; 205 . . . channelestimating portion; 206 . . . reception data demodulating portion; 207 .. . data extracting portion; 208 . . . higher layer; 209 . . . antenna;and 210 . . . radio resource control portion.

The invention claimed is:
 1. A communication method for a mobile stationapparatus configured to transmit uplink control information to a basestation apparatus, the communication method comprising: performing afirst transmission process of transmitting first channel stateinformation on a physical uplink shared channel in a first uplinkcomponent carrier, the first channel state information being for each ofa first downlink component carrier and a second downlink componentcarrier, performing a second transmission process of transmitting firsthybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) control information on a physicaluplink control channel in the first uplink component carrier, performinga third transmission process of transmitting second channel stateinformation on a physical uplink shared channel in a second uplinkcomponent carrier, the second channel state information being for eachof a third downlink component carrier and a fourth downlink componentcarrier, and performing a fourth transmission process of transmittingsecond HARQ control information on a physical uplink control channel inthe second uplink component carrier, wherein transmission power for thefirst transmission process in a first subframe for the first uplinkcomponent carrier is given on the basis of whether or not thetransmission on the physical uplink control channel is simultaneouslyperformed, for the first uplink component carrier, with the transmissionon the physical uplink shared channel, and transmission power for thethird transmission process in a second subframe for the second uplinkcomponent carrier is given on the basis of whether or not thetransmission on the physical uplink control channel is simultaneouslyperformed, for the second uplink component carrier, with thetransmission on the physical uplink shared channel.
 2. A mobile stationapparatus configured to transmit uplink control information to a basestation apparatus, the mobile station apparatus comprising: atransmission circuit configured to perform a first transmission processof transmitting first channel state information on a physical uplinkshared channel in a first uplink component carrier, the first channelstate information being for each of a first downlink component carrierand a second downlink component carrier, the transmission circuit isconfigured to perform a second transmission process of transmissionfirst hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) control information on aphysical uplink control channel in the first uplink component carrier,the transmission circuit is configured to perform a third transmissionprocess of transmitting second channel state information on a physicaluplink shared channel in a second uplink component carrier, the secondchannel state information being for each of a third downlink componentcarrier and a fourth downlink component carrier, and the transmissioncircuit is configured to perform a fourth transmission process oftransmitting second HARQ control information on a physical uplinkcontrol channel in the second uplink component carrier, whereintransmission power for the first transmission process in a firstsubframe for the first uplink component carrier is given on the basis ofwhether or not the transmission on the physical uplink control channelis simultaneously performed, for the first uplink component carrier,with the transmission on the physical uplink shred channel, andtransmission power for the third transmission process in a secondsubframe for the second uplink component carrier is given on the basisof whether or not the transmission on the physical uplink controlchannel is simultaneously performed, for the second uplink componentcarrier, with the transmission on the physical uplink shared channel. 3.A mobile station apparatus that includes an integrated circuit, theintegrated circuit is configured to perform at least functions of:performing a first transmission process of transmitting first channelstate information on a physical uplink shared channel in a first uplinkcomponent carrier, the first channel state information being for each ofa first downlink component carrier and a second downlink componentcarrier, performing a second transmission process of transmitting firsthybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) control information on a physicaluplink control channel in the first uplink component carrier, performinga third transmission process of transmitting second channel stateinformation on a physical uplink shared channel in a second uplinkcomponent carrier, the second channel state information being for eachof a third downlink component carrier and a fourth downlink componentcarrier, and performing a fourth transmission process of transmittingsecond HARQ control information on a physical uplink control channel inthe second uplink component carrier, wherein transmission power for thefirst transmission process in a first subframe for the first uplinkcomponent carrier is given on the basis of whether or not thetransmission on the physical uplink control channel is simultaneouslyperformed, for the first uplink component carrier, with the transmissionon the physical uplink shared channel, and transmission power for thethird transmission process in a second subframe for the second uplinkcomponent carrier is given on the basis of whether or not thetransmission on the physical uplink control channel is simultaneouslyperformed, for the second uplink component carrier, with thetransmission on the physical uplink shared channel.
 4. The communicationmethod according to claim 1, wherein the HARQ control informationincludes information indicating a positive acknowledgment (ACK) or anegative acknowledgment (NACK).
 5. The mobile station apparatusaccording to claim 2, wherein the HARQ control information includesinformation indicating a positive acknowledgment (ACK) or a negativeacknowledgment (NACK).
 6. The mobile station apparatus that includes theintegrated circuit according to claim 3, wherein the HARQ controlinformation includes information indicating a positive acknowledgment(ACK) or a negative acknowledgment (NACK).